Artworks & exhibitions created in 2010

Atelier Brückner’s Magic Box & A glimpse of the future

The Shanghai Expo of 1 may – 31 October 2010 was themed Better City-Better Life and was to showcase the Chinese city’s place in the world of the future and its place in the 21st century as one of the world’s greatest cities. It was the largest fair up to that date and attracted …

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This was Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion in Shanghai

Architecture / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral, 2010 What have seeds got to do with art? Well, Thomas Heatherwick did manage to preserve a big chunk of our plants within an art piece he presented at the UK pavilion at Expo 2010. Out of the 200 building exhibits on display, Heatherwick must have instinctively known that he had …

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Thomas Hirschhorn filled entire museum with garbage

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Thomas Hirschhorn has grown to become one of the most recognizable leading artists in the global contemporary art world. He gained fame in the 1990s thanks to his space-filling massive collages that were created from disposable materials. Influence & background Thomas Hirschhorn was born in Switzerland in 1957. Originally trained as a graphic designer, …

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The middle finger of Milan by Maurizio Cattelan – What you should know

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

“Officially, its name is L.O.V.E. – so it stands for love – but everyone can read between the lines and take away the message they see for themselves.” – Maurizio Cattelan If you stroll into Milan’s Piazza degli Affari, you are bound to feast your eyes on a shocking sight: A 4 to 5 …

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Mark Bradford’s giant sculpture Mithra resembles Noah’s ark

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Mark Bradford Asked to describe himself, Mark Bradford uses the words demolisher and builder in the same breadth and it is easy to see why. Using posters created for promoting merchant goods and services, flyers and general advertising materials, he takes pride in transforming anything he can lay his hands on into large-scale art pieces. …

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Barry McGee’s tag murals – Walls covered with hundreds of red tags

Graffiti, Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

Barry McGee’s tag mural in New York When the iconic gallerist Jeffrey Deitch swapped the East Coast for West Coast, many wondered about the state of street art in New York City. Granted, the newer generation of gallerists such as Joshua Liner and Jonathan Levine had become preeminent curators with their fresh take on street …

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Karina Smigla-Bobinski – ADA, 2010, sphere, helium, charcoal, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 2013 feat

Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA creates these unpredictable paintings

Installations, Paintings / 2 minutes of reading

What is Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA? ADA, a kinetic sculpture by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, stands out for being interactive and unpredictable; Imagine a giant ball that is filled with helium gas and its surface covered with charcoal spikes. The helium causes the ball to be suspended in the air and the charcoal sticks provide grips and a …

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Yue Minjun’s sculptures & The infectious power of laughter

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

About Yue Minjun Yue Minjun was born in Daqing in Heilongjiang, China in 1962. Yue moved from place to place for most of his life because his family had to move from oilfield to oilfield to find work. Before working as an electrician, he graduated from Hebei Normal University in 1989, where he studied oil …

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Yang Fudong’s dreamlike Fifth Night video

Photography, Video Art / 2 minutes of reading

About Yang Fudong China’s most well-known cinematographer and photographer, Yang Fudong, was born in Beijing, China, in 1971. He is also regarded by many as one of the greatest film writers to come out of China. However, his creativity spans far beyond that. Yang began training in painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts …

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Erin M. Riley interview – Nothing is off limits (NSFW)

Interviews, Textile art / 9 minutes of reading

Is there a better reflection of a culture than the creatives living in it? From painters to photographers to poets, the voice of our moment is often told most aptly and timelessly through what they create. The same goes for Erin M. Riley. She has taken a look at both her own and the …

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Beni Bischof’s cars – A vision for driving in the future?

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Beni Bischof has created a series of art that he calls ‘Handicapped Cars’. Through these series, he has developed an uncanny ability to manipulate cool autos digitally. He’s proven quite adept at this sort of work. Consequently, he has earned rave reviews from all over the world. Through this series and others of a …

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Choi Jeong Hwa - Breathing Flower, 2019, fabric, blower, LED lighting, steel, wooden structure, installation view, La Défense, Paris, 2019 feat

Choi Jeong Hwa’s gigantic breathing lotus flowers

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

What Choi Jeong Hwa’s Lotus Flowers comment on Sustainable art or art that is heavily centered on themes of nature is art that seeks to make human beings think deeply about the impact of their lifestyle choices on the environment. Korean artist and designer Choi Jeong Hwa has racked up a reputation in industry circles …

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Wang Yuping – The best of his dark comic style paintings

Paintings / 1 minute of reading

Who is Wang Yuping? Wang Yuping (b.1962, Beijing) is known for his gritty, comic book style portraits of urban life in China. His paintings are playful, feature rough, tough or absurd Beijing characters and seem to spy on life in the inner city as a kind of Wang Shuo of the art’s world. By placing …

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Photographer Thomas Struth visits both North & South Korea

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Struth’s trips to Korea In March 2007, Thomas Struth went on a first trip to South Korea. He spent time in the two largest cities, Seoul and Busan, and visited religious and cultural sites, important landscapes and shipyards. At the vast DSME shipyard on Geoje Island, one of the largest in the world, he …

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Alec Soth’s Broken Manual – Somewhere to Disappear

Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Broken Manual by photographer Alec Soth is a compelling series that was created over a four-year period, from 2006-2010. They reflect Soth’s increasing interest in the mounting anger and frustration that some—specifically male—Americans feel with societal constraints and their subsequent desire to remove themselves from civilization. The resulting work is a group of portraits …

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Why is Franz West considered one of the most important Austrian artists?

Sculptures / 11 minutes of reading

Who was Franz West? The Austrian Franz West (1947-2012), one of the most important postwar-artists, died less than two weeks ago on July 25, 2012. He left a career and a vast body of work spanning over several decades. Childhood Franz West was born on February 16, 1947, in Vienna, Austria. His father was a …

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Photographer Timo Stammberger in subway tunnels without permission

Architecture, Photography / 1 minute of reading

Timo Stammberger (b. 1980) is a Berlin-based photographer. He is the first to document subway tunnels in his extensive series Underground Landscapes that shows the underground architecture from major cities like New York, Lisbon, Budapest, Berlin and others. Underground Landscapes The surprising element is that the subway tunnels that millions of people pass through …

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Ai Weiwei explains his famous Sunflower Seeds

Installations / 11 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei’s Sunflowers Ai Weiwei emerged as a revolutionary artist on the scene of Chinese art and culture. He served as a protagonist in various dynamic avant-garde movements. His controversial exhibitions have taken the world of art by storm. He has been represented on top in the list of 100 most powerful people who …

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Jazoo Yang (양 자주) created these uncommon murals in South Korea

Graffiti, Paintings, Street Art / 4 minutes of reading

Who is Jazoo Yang? Jazoo Yang is a South Korean artist who lives and works in Beijing and Seoul. She uses her paintings and installations to document others’ solitude, often in interesting ways. Her paintings, which she creates by using brushes or knives, are usually not finished so that the surface becomes the infinite space …

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Shocking: Beautiful ring made out of Crystal Meth

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Till Death Do Us Part This ring by Tokyo-based artist Issei Watanabe (渡邉一生) contains a little bit of Crystal Meth, a dangerous drug, widespread not...

Artworks & exhibitions created in 2010

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